Although the acronym SAX stands for Simple Access (or API) to XML, it is not that easy, that everybody instantly is able to use it. PHP provided a SAX-based parser using the xml_* functions since PHP 3.0.6, but only since PHP5 provides a wider range of XML APIs PHP and XML are getting the attention they deserve. This tutorial will show you how to use XML_Parser, an object oriented wrapper around the native PHP extension, which makes processing XML documents with PHP4 easy as cake.